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[David Sklar]

>>> Who gets to be libc for web programming?
>>
>> PHP already is IMO; it's the 'libj' that everyone is trying to find.
>
> I think PHP/Perl/Python/Java/etc collectively make up the C. There is
> no libc yet.
>
> That's what my analogy looks like anyway. :-)

Yeah. With multiple languages hosted by a common VM, you get access to the
same core function library from each language instead of having to
reimplement it again and again (cf. form processing, web services, image
manipulation, XML parsing, etc. etc. etc.)

When was the last time (if your name is Dan Bernstein, don't answer this
question) you wrote a version of strlen() for your app? Not very frequently.
When was the last time (even in PHP) you wrote a function to display an
<input type="text"> widget with the entity-encoded default value inserted if
present in $_REQUEST? I want that to be the same in any web programming
language.

David